Enraged Mike Huckabee Wants NPR Stripped of Public Funds

NPR has really done it now: They actually fired an employee, Juan Williams, for making insensitive comments about Muslims on television. Is this the American way? Former GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, for one, wants NPR stripped of public funding.

We don't know if Juan Williams' comments on the O'Reilly Factor about being scared when he sees Muslims on airplanes — stupid as they were — objectively merit firing from NPR. But if Rick Sanchez gets fired for vaguely surmising that Jews run the media, and Octavia Nasr gets fired for tweeting something nice about a Hezbollah leader who died, then Juan Williams, by those terribly oversensitive media standards, should be canned.

But since NPR has failed to abide by the comfortable double-standard that allows anyone to make insensitive comments about Muslims without fear of reprieve, this is a full-blown scandal! Here's Mike Huckabee — one of Williams' colleagues at Fox News, where he wasn't fired — sounding the call (via CNN):

"NPR has discredited itself as a forum for free speech and a protection of the First Amendment rights of all and has solidified itself as the purveyor of politically correct pabulum and protector of views that lean left," Huckabee said in a statement provided to CNN.